Dr. Greer's - Biased - Anti Xenophobic Approach

Dr. Steven Greer’s Biased Anti Xenophobic Approach (in spite of his many important contributions)

By

Giorgio Piacenza

Generally speaking (in spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary already available to those that look for it), people don’t take the ET presence seriously or care whether ETs are here or not because it doesn’t seem to concern their daily material and social lives. Furthermore, those that do care or take this seriously, generally lack critical thinking and a wide range of information to wisely integrate the most salient aspects of a complex subject. Thus, they still deal with the complex situation in limited and – naturally - divisive ways.

The rejection of involvement on the ET issue is due to prejudice, disconnected awareness of personal connections with other realities, an excessive fear of change, of losing social standing and an instinctive tendency toward short term, zero-sum, status seeking, thinking, behavior and emotions. It is personal meaning holding on to a pre-verbal sense of reality, instinct and feelings primarily adapted to a harsh, dangerous, classical physical experience quite liekely acquired in paleolithic times and earlier.  Besides, there’s the atavistic fear of the unknown and of not belonging anymore to one’s own social approval group.

Moreover, politicians don’t want to grab this “hot potato” since anything that is too strange or ‘weird’ is a political risk intoday’s supposedly “rational” formal society.” Scientists that know or suspect there’s something real to otherowrldy contact testimonies generally prefer not to be known for thinking in favor of these possibilities. Thus, the main actors that socially construct our orthodox knowledge and paradigms do not give the rest permission to engage in these interests in a socially “legitimate” way.

 It’s quite a difficult an issue to grapple with – a complexity with many aspects - and, besides all this, there is sufficient evidence of an active, powerful military-industrial-financial and secret forces that try to control the information, release it with a slant or suppress it.  However, we cannot grapple with intertwined planet-centric and integral issues by chasing technology under more divisive, dichotomous and pre-planet-centric level of awareness, notwithstanding resources, compartmentalization and the best organization linear thinking can muster. This would be true whether the reasons are noble, patriotic or subservient, fear and survival-based or selfish. We must either learn to make adaptive and prescient decisions collectively or else allow dictators to make them for us.

It’s no wonder why after seventy-something years of good research and accumulated UFO and contact evidence and, after hundreds of books, documentaries, news clips and UFO conferences telling about aspects of what could be the most important, world-transformative historical event yet, we have apparently had very narrow practical results as per awakening humanity to a non-mechanistic path to life, to a less destructive and more inclusive science and metaphysics and to the role we play in relation with our cosmic relatives. Still, after all these years, a majority of politicians and scientists do shy away from the subject and most people simply don’t care enough about it. But, how long can we live without the truth?

To face the challenge we need to be able to come together and be able to consider all of the UFO and experiencer-contact aspects. We need a unique kind of thinking; something extremely unique in the history of the world. Nothing else will do to face the world’s chalenges today. We need to grow into an “integrative kind of thinking” (and being)  not just in order to care for what is happening, but to be able to coherently think “outside of the box” and to process in a life-enhancing way all the main aspects of the complex ET presence. We need to be able to put the “pieces of the puzzle” together even when - at first - they don't seem to belong together. In spite of our human proclivites, we also seem to have the capacity for it.

This “integrative thinking” would even have to go beyond what post-postmodern, current integrative thinkers like Ken Wilber, Roy Bhaskar, Basarab Nicolescu, and Edgar Morin (trailblazers yet speaking to a small portion of humanity) have thus far selected to delve into. This "thinking" (and feeling and the ethics that goes along with it) would have to include knowledge and interest about “psi” or the "psychic" and the “paranormal” and the UFO and the contactee-experiencer sagas with new scientific, seriously reviewed metaphysical and spiritual ways to make sense of it.  In part we need the meta theories of the integrative theorists to learn to make sense of ideas that seem contradictory, for instance including how consciousness and matter may work in unity or how God and spiritual matters can be reconciled with rational-critical-scientific thinking. We also need to know how the “visitors” may do it. Under what mechanisms and principles they operate to manifest in a practical manner in our seemingly solid reality, seemingly arriving from impossibly far away distances.  

What are the rules that govern the non-local, psychic energies that connect us meaningfully and non-locally and which also make our world possible and coherent perhaps through non-local information patterns while connecting the subjective and objective realms of experience and we need to be able to do this in order to really be able think as a planetary species and to feel the authenticity of an ethics that embraces all sentient beings. And this integral-level connection mustn’t just be a series of norms and limited to a conceptual approach but must also be physically, psychically and intuitively felt (or, rather, trans physically felt) energy-wise and emotionally, with awareness that there can be (and are) practical technological applications that can be very convenient for humanity and for our ecological commons. What is in store for humanity as a growing challenge is completely unusual. It requires overcoming the dangerous limitations of our primary animal aspect adaptation to a classical material world.     

As much as I really respect most of Dr. Steven Greer's work, including his healthy patriotism and his crucial findings and assessments carefully gathered from many former or current high level operatives, scientists, witnesses and insiders in various aspects of ET research and cover-up in Government institutions and in wat could be called the "parallel government"; even if I think that it is possible that a negative (and possibly contrived) version of ETs may be presented to plausibly prime the population for a “false flag” ET invasion, I also think that he falls into his own “unacknowledged” kind of dichotomous thinking by selectively ignoring some credible contactee, whistleblower, historical and research evidence indicating that some (perhaps a minority) of ETs may not be benign or in our best interests.

As contactees like Sixto Paz and Ricardo Gonzalez and others occasionally share, even if we were able to make integral-level conscious choices (that in my view would entail gaining planetary sovereignty as a species in the eyes of a cosmic community), these negative ETs apparently believe that our species should never awaken to its full potential or gain planetary-level respect and “sovereignty.”  In other words, some (please understand they could just be a minority) of the ET species for some reasons interested on Earth may truly think that they have a natural right to use us in order to further their particular causes against our conscious will.  In spite of the exaggerations designed to negotiate and make money selling horror stories and despite a secret government strategy to infuse fear about ETs into the population, to really understand –to free ourselves from exterior negativity we need to try to understand all aspects. No denial will set us free.

I know that this subject of negative aliens is given way too much sensationalist attention but –even if a majority of experiencer reports describe positive encounters – we need to keep an account of all kinds of plausible encounters described. But Dr. Greer is adamant against this. Too adamant. He may have been given many details by whistleblowers but - as keen researcher Grant Cameron suggests - under a controlled leak of information that was allowed to come out as long as elements of doubt (and elements that do not fit other aspects of UFO-experiencer phenomena seemingly contradicting each other also) come out along with the valid chunks of information. The same happened with Bob Lazar's testimony that could be vald but allowed to come out because there were elements of doubt , for instance about his university credentials. 

But to make progress in this field, we need to listen to each other’s partial truths and learn to connect them. That is integrative thinking. 

Are there any hostile abductions? My understanding is that not all hostile-looking abductions are either from ET or MILABS but that, nevertheless, some ET varieties also conduct these kinds of abductions and that not all of them ought to be considered as unequivocally 'wiser' and adequate in every way to promote our highest good and to actualize our highest potentials. Just because a civilization can leave their planet and go interstellar doesn't mean that they have an idyllic peace-loving civilization as they might be under strict authoritarian control. 

This may be true even if they can already think and technologically operate – to a degree - in partial non-local, transdimensional, holistic and integral ways that might impress upon us as “superior” and even activate in us dormant spiritual potentials (perhaps by virtue of interacting up close and personal with their energy signatures).

Definitely, I’m not supporting a simplistic “good vs. bad” alien understanding, or Manichean, crude, dichotomous view. Perhaps when civilizations reach a level of culture that can go transdimensional and liberate themselves from the crudest animalistic ways of being they at least become united as a species in one way or another. They learn to COHERE under a deeper non-local meaningful pattern whether they are in service to self or in service to others in terms of an ethical orientation. And, although the service to self stance would eventually become inimical with the order of the Cosmos based on an Absolute Being and Intelligence that GIVES life, it may last for some time, so to speak.  

I’m for a non-dual level of awareness that can be translated into a practical understanding in the world of form and appearances and not only as an inspired reflection of a provisional state of consciousness unity. While states of consciousness and what they can inspire are important they tend to be fleeting; thus interpretation and application into the practical world requires more permanent and structured levels of understanding, development and interpretation. It requires critical thinking.

Quite likely this means that, in spite of Dr. Greer’s great many assessments about ET reality, how it has been dealt with under a cover-up and so on; even in spite of Dr. Greer’s own interactive contacts (perhaps with a broad range of ET beings), he still holds on to dichotomous, “unacknowledged,” biased mental processes. Perhaps he feels that anyone just slightly hinting that he or she assesses the ET situation in different ways than him is a willing or unwilling part of the cover-up and of duality-based “xenophobia.” He may be quite correct in that humanity has a penchant for xenophobia and may be quite correct in trying to placate this to increase our chances of a peaceful human-ET public relationship. Moreover, it may also be true that there are many ET civilizations which really are benign to us; ET civilizations and their contactees which we as a species have been dismissing, misinterpreting and even attacking. But by virtue of adamantly dismissing evidence about some negative ETs he loses some of his credibility as a truly objective voice that can represent us all or relate with clarity to the whole situation. This, and other criticisms which some people raise against him (perhaps associated with his strong -even adamant - personality) may be the reason why he has been allowed to bring out so much information. Again, as a sharp researcher Grant Cameron has recently suggested, there’s a pattern of purposefully leaking out information – aspects of the whole situation – by using persons whose attitudes or something about them will generate sufficient doubt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0zGr7vjz24&feature=share

We must learn to deal with the complexity of the subject matter for the most part resisting either-or forms of thinking. These “benign” civilizations (whether human-looking or not) may believe in us as a species more than we believe in ourselves because they know about our history and potentials from an integrated spiritual, mental and physical perspective. They may be holding on to a higher purpose for humanity, more quietly providing guidance and containing the development of world affairs toward a more negative path. We would be better of allying ourselves with them more directly, establishing contact more openly, with these varieties of ETs as they may be keeping alive the flame of hope for humanity’s highest potentials willing to be of assistance to all rather than dealing with subsets of humanity in order to obtain certain advantages.

Even if we seek the ability to make our own independent decisions –whether we relate more or less with service to others or to service to self ETs - by arming ourselves we may be better of openly allying ourselves with the latter variety of ET friends than preparing with electromagnetic pulse weapons in space, manipulating public attitudes with space invasion scenarios and so on. We need to develop our conscious awareness to promote peace and the freedom to make our own decision without an attachment to weapons to be respected. That approach can only last for a limited time and keep us mired in recreating more manipulative conditions.   While considering ETs as “enemies” in a xenophobic way is not the adequate path, neither is not caring to understand theirs and our own limitations and attachments. We can include all the complexity in a digestible way within higher principles emanating from a Non dual embrace. These principles (in my understanding emanating from the Universal Christ Intelligence or Universal Logos through which the Non Dual Ultimate creates and manifests) embrace all forms of understanding and allies itself with the highest understandings within all sentience.

We urgently need to grow up in our capacities to care and to embrace more of reality for the good of all beings and particularly of our choking ecosystem, discovering that we can actually change our unimaginative, self-serving historical, developmental course by constantly learning to synthesize more and more knowledge under principles that not just are the basis of different forms of logic and reasoning but also different levels of the actualizing Cosmos and all being. In fact, under a subsistence, self-serving inclination attached to our current overly dichotomous thinking patterns both "benevolent" ET's and "non-benevolent" ETs would understand that we are incapable of understanding them. All our assessments about them, including those of highly intelligent and informed groups (at least partially acting on our behalf like what was until recently called “Majestic 12”) would be too dichotomous to be adequate and to make fitting decisions.

While a welcoming openness and flexibility towards the unknown is an integral quality in itself (and this might be a reason why some genuine physical contactee movements have moved to Latin America) we also need to balance that openness and flexibility with an integral kind of critical thinking inclusive of post formal cognition, a non-fanatical, balanced ethics and spirituality, an easy-going, responsible life without much of a “follow the charismatic leader” attitude.  We need openness to benevolent, mutually respectful, conscious choice contacts without them taking place inside follow-the-leader cults and in such a way that they can be replicated by many individuals and not just by the frontrunner. We need to learn to make contact and to relate with it in a psychologically and socially healthy way.

Rarely -if ever- either major group of ETs (basically those that believe in our possibility to change by our own efforts and those that don’t) would behave under OUR simplistic assumptions of "good vs. evil" aliens and, in this sense, I think Dr. Greer is correct. However, a more complex and integral understanding of “service to self” and “service to others” as part of tendencies among ETs (even if in many respects –but not totally - they are capable of thinking in more holistic, integral and transdimensional ways) would also need to be understood. Yes, in essence we are all brothers and sisters, One People in one Universe, but if we consciously or subconsciously allow some of the service-to-self ETs to use us as they are naturally, holistically allowed by us and by how the Universe functions unless we awaken and choose otherwise. 

Following in this path without major paradigm changes they will continue, some perhaps offering scraps of enticing technology probably incorporating us into their societies and-or hybridizing a new species or race with us for our common good without our full fledge conscious understanding. Others, who knows, from a common perspective they might not operate in such a “kind” way. As Alex Collier reported, if we don’t respect ourselves, our own species members, our environment and others in the cosmic neighborhood, what good are we as a species?

We need to wake up to a functionally harmonious level of integral consciousness to become important sovereign participants among all types of ETs. To avoid entrapping quandaries, we need to develop into a planetary civilization that has a good sense of its place in the Universe and that cannot happen if we are controlled by a group of intelligent people that thinks it knows what’s best for us because we wouldn’t be able to handle it; a group of individuals that have a hard time ending the cover-up…perhaps as addicted to postponement as political leaders are willing to postpone restructuring the economic-production-consumption systems dependent on fossil fuels.  Their views - however informed they might be – may still be too partial and dichotomous to deal with the issue representing the whole of humanity wisely and in the long run may mostly thwart the potential for a healthy global awakening.

It is complex but it is within our means to take the bull by the horns, adapt and change. Some credible contactees like Sixto Paz (offering evidence of their contacts) were told that our genetic make-up is superior to that of specific ET species and-or races. We can function at levels of consciousness more developed than our ET relatives. We just don’t know it and hold on to ways that keep us adapted to classic animalistic physical survival; our lowest level restricted to a physical world functioning under classical patterns. If we keep at it and don't develop a non-co-dependent, integral, global civilization by our own means, the "benevolent" transdimensional ETs (those that not only have participated in seeding us genetically as probably the other ones did but who believe in our potential to change for the better and to become an example even to them in the Universe) and the "non-benevolent" transdimensional ETs (those that operate under an understanding that we don't have the right to be treated even as potentially sovereign and not to be used because we haven’t proved ourselves and because we are threatening the continuation of life on Earth besides the circumstance that they also participated in seeding us genetically) will continue treating us either as beloved immature children with much to offer upon growing up or as resources for a different kind of blending with them. Both kinds of ETs will continue treating us (according to their own particular characteristics) as unable to fully engage in dialogue even if they already think somewhat more holistically and integrally than us and even if –to various degrees- they more consciously acknowledge themselves to be functional parts of a multi-civilization living cosmic system that needs to be synergized in harmony.

We could perhaps say that neither of these major ET groups can interfere too much with each other when interacting with their old investment – the Earth and Humanity - and that, for this reason (for the most part but with exceptions), there has not been an outright display of invasion or of hostility among them. We could say that –besides particular phenotypes and histories - both basic ET groups (within which there might be great differences and various alliances and associations) wait for our self-initiated responses as a species, trying not to impose their presence too openly. While some may have diplomatically engaged more with the human species through covert government representatives, others may have worked more through specific individuals and groups. In either case, they also probably connected with our Earth species holographically and non-locally in levels of “morphogenetic” and “meme genetic” connection subconsciously affecting us all to make choices that would lead to futures suitable to their particular interests.  

Moreover, if any particular ET subdivision overstepped its boundaries there might be specific ‘watchers’ or ‘guardians’ or even more advanced (6^th density?) varieties of “Elohim” (way beyond experiencing Life through crude polar differences) willing to step in and restore the balance. Both basic kinds of ET groups vying to obtain something from us in what we could think of as “benevolent” and “non-benevolent” ways would generally understand and recognize each other’s roles under a more inclusive integral perspective and, unless we grow up to meet the challenge of this complexity, we will not properly understand what the ET presence really entails.  Moreover, it is imperative that we recuperate our forgotten cosmic history if any and what was the original purpose for varieties of ET races intervening on Earth in the first place. 

We need to find out what –if anything- went wrong and how it can be amended. Has our genetic expression been suppressed? Can it be reactivated so that we cease spontaneously privileging immediate, short-term gain and feeling instinctive lack of trust toward anyone different? Is our latent “human nature” much vaster than what we normally think?  Unless those humans in control of secret research and semi-official-unofficial diplomatic relations realize that we can indeed wake up and change for the good, they will play their cards with the same mind set of the variety of ETs that don’t believe in us. It may mean that by trying to obtain independence and respect by procuring technology following the same overall path of manipulative ETs we may fall into the hands of the same divisive forces that manipulate those ETs.

Again, while I agree with most ideas presented by Dr. Greer and I think that human xenophobia is also a serious, recurrent problem against establishing a mutually respectful relationship with ETs, an adequate understanding is beyond the "all are good" or "all are evil" approach to ETs. In the non-duality of expansive conscious states used for establishing CE-5 contacts all beings are one but that doesn’t logically translate in the realm of contingency, duality and choice as meaning that, therefore, all ET beings think the same about how to interact  with us as physically embedded beings. Even some Vedic records like the Mahabharata seem to refer to “service to self” and “service to others” types of ET and-or celestial devas. Even the divine (associated in this epic poem myth with lord Krishna itself both embracing and transcending the polarities) counseled that it was a sacred duty to battle for the good but without hatred or attachment. Recognizing the situation and acting appropriately without fear or hatred is the key.

Considering that some ETs may not necessarily understand what is in our best interest if we could make our own choices wisely is not the same as validating “human xenophobia” and there’s no reason to over react against a different opinion unless perhaps there’s a hidden fear that one’s cherished belief may not always hold. Overreacting against reasonable opinions may in itself be a veiled form of “xenophobia” (a fear and rejection of that which is foreign or strange) of people representing different ideas. The inability extremely intelligent and well-informed individuals may have to learn from a different, at least plausible (and perhaps complementary) perspective that feels threatening may be illustrated in this exchange retrieved from Project Camelot  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzqDVOjtNhg

Dr. Greer’s partial truths tend to criticize human bigotry and over idealize ET capacities. But, perhaps due to his own resoluteness (useful to achieve what he has almost single-handedly achieved), he rejects any criticism of his blinds spots. He may have had positive, friendly experiences and received correct information about closed-minded, bigoted human actions. He may be partially correct but unable to perceive other complementary aspects outside of his experience. Other experts tend to over emphasize (and subconsciously idealize) the negative ET scenarios and to dismiss even the more credible “space brother” scenarios and experiences. Yet still, other partially correct experts likewise providing some good information in this large puzzle tend to over idealize the positive ET, space-brother scenario. Then again, the scientifically-minded who care about UFOs as a legitimate research subject tend to dismiss both abductee and contactee accounts and so on.  I think that mutual dismissal is one of the main problems withing the diverse community of people that have something at least partially valid to say about the complex matter of UFOs and ET contact.  We dismiss each other’s valuable kernels of information, subdividing our efforts into self-legitimizing support groups. We need to go beyond that in order to make sense of the whole and to come together as a more effective, unified force for social change.  

When we over emphasize a partial truth we often incur in the “sin” of reverse bigotry. We become doctrinnaire and fall into psychological denial reacting defensively against any inkling of a disagreement, especially if we have invested much time and effort out on a limb to get a truth out. That reflects intolerance for dissention within the groups most influenced by us, a sense of threat to our work, especially if we have leding and resolute personalities. An we tend to gather information that agrees with us and dismiss the one that doesn’t.

But I think that we are truly capable of more and that we as a species can easily learn to think more flexibly while creating a socially sanctioned attitudinal space favoring complexity. We can also do a better job at informing and educating the public in that they can continuously learn by means of critical and integrative thinking therefore getting ready sooner for the kind of species-wide and planetary-wide SOVEREIGNTY almost certainly recognized by both general kinds of transdimensionally-capable ETs (ETs that would be able to exist in our exact physical realm and timeline or in more or less dense physical realms and associated timelines interacting with ours through the link provided by a more fundamental non-physical, “Subtle” or “astral” Realm).

To avoid unacknowledged xenophobia within ourselves (still producing a “shadow” that will carry on into the next generations) let’s take in all relevant information which is backed by reasonable forms of evidence. Neither privileging the positive in order to avoid panic (and falling into the plans of the most extreme -perhaps as Dr. Greer mentions, “eschatologically-oriented” people “in the know”) nor privileging the negative to hold on to “us vs. them” animalistic fighting reaction patterns will promote the inclusive understanding required to move into the next stage of evolution. Only learning to combine complementary opposites with spirituality making more integral choices in an experientially real, contingent world will do.